A training programme in technical theatre is about to begin

By Al creighton

Guyana’s Carifesta Secretariat is about to conduct the largest training programme in technical theatre carried out in this country in recent history.  The series of workshops held by GEMS Theatre Company in 2007 and 2008 was smaller and restricted to juniors.  In the 1980s and ’90s the fairly strong Drama programme at the University of Guyana was of an entirely different reach and focus, offering training at a much higher academic level and only accommodating a small number of university students.  The only programme of greater magnitude was that carried on by the Theatre Guild, sustained formally and informally, for over 30 years.